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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

houston.aiga.org

AIGA | the professional association for design. AIGA Houston

Page Load Speed

886 ms in total

First Response

7 ms

Resources Loaded

724 ms

Page Rendered

155 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houston.aiga.org page load time and found that the first response time was 7 ms and then it took 879 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

houston.aiga.org performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

houston.aiga.org

7 ms

houston.aiga.org

181 ms

style.css

8 ms

style.css

10 ms

background_images.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Houston.aiga.org, 27% (16 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Addtocalendar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (248 ms) belongs to the original domain Houston.aiga.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 397.9 kB (10%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Houston.aiga.org main page is 4.0 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 128.7 kB

  • Original 141.0 kB
  • After minification 103.1 kB
  • After compression 12.3 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 37.9 kB, which is 27% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 128.7 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 244.5 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.5 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Houston AIGA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 96.8 kB
  • After minification 96.7 kB
  • After compression 79.9 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 16.8 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 50.7 kB
  • After minification 50.5 kB
  • After compression 42.9 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Houston.aiga.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (53%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Houston AIGA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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houston.aiga.org

7 ms

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181 ms

style.css

style.css

8 ms

style.css

style.css

10 ms

background_images.css

background_images.css

18 ms

sass.css

sass.css

20 ms

sass_templates.css

sass_templates.css

16 ms

plugins.css

plugins.css

19 ms

editor.css

editor.css

23 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

23 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

32 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

32 ms

jquery.init.js

jquery.init.js

31 ms

jquery.isotope.js

jquery.isotope.js

31 ms

humanize.js

humanize.js

31 ms

selectbox_input.js

selectbox_input.js

31 ms

bowser.min.js

bowser.min.js

53 ms

cat.js

cat.js

51 ms

fluid_grid.js

fluid_grid.js

53 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

53 ms

ikit_three.js

ikit_three.js

50 ms

atc-base.css

atc-base.css

65 ms

atc.min.js

atc.min.js

66 ms

uwa3uik.js

uwa3uik.js

112 ms

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70 ms

comment_count.js

comment_count.js

60 ms

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248 ms

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count.js

235 ms

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61 ms

button_search.svg

button_search.svg

64 ms

button_search_alt.svg

button_search_alt.svg

60 ms

compact_menu_close.svg

compact_menu_close.svg

62 ms

compact_menu_link_expand.svg

compact_menu_link_expand.svg

64 ms

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65 ms

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65 ms

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65 ms

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75 ms

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Accessibility Review

houston.aiga.org accessibility score

67

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

houston.aiga.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

houston.aiga.org SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Houston.aiga.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Houston.aiga.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

houston.aiga.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Houston AIGA. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: